陕西省专升本考试英语真题.doc

2009年陕西省高校在校生专升本英语考试试题

注意事项：
1．本卷满分为150分。考试时间为150分钟。
2．本卷分试卷I和试卷II，均用钢笔或圆珠笔答卷。第I卷为客观题，考生必须把答案用大写字母写在答题纸上；第II卷为主观题，考生直接把答案写在试卷上。
3．答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。

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I. Vocabulary and structure (40%)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
1. _________a solution to the problem of water shortage, we have to put all our efforts together.
A. To work out   B. Working out   C. Work out   D. Being worked out
2. Smith regretted _________ to the meeting yesterday.
   A. not going     B. Working out   C. not to going  D. not to be going
3. A professor, along with some students, _________ now working in the new laboratory.
   A. is           B. were         C. are         D. was
4. Just as I was leaving the house, it occurred ________me that I had forgotten my keys.
  A. on        B. in              C. at           D. to  
5. Do you have any idea why he _________?
  A. is looked sad   B. is looking sad  C. looks sadly   D. looks sad
6. My children are looking forward to ________a trip to Beijing next month.
  A. make      B. making         C. be making     D. have made
7. Numerous studied have shown that ________the teacher’s expectation, the greater the achievement of the student.
  A. the higher   B. the highest    C. as high        D. the high
8. We had a party last month, and it was a lot of fun, so let’s have _______one this month.
  A. other       B. more        C. the other       D. another
9. Why not _______to professor Smith for advice? He is an expert in this field.
  A. go         B. your going    C. to go          D. you go
10. Only after the students have mastered the rules of pronunciation________.
  A. can they memorize words more easily
  B. when can they memorize words more easily
  C. then they can memorize words more easily
  D when they can memorize words more easily
11._______formal occasions, you should tale about some world issues or social problems, not about yourself or your family.
  A. In       B. At        C. On       D. By
12.______troublesome the problem is, he faces it with patience.
 A. No matter     B. Although      C. Despite      D. However
13. Since you won’t lend us your motor car, you should at _______tell us where we can borrow one.
   A. most         B. least          C. large        D. length
14.______the English evening, I would have gone to the cinema.
 A. As for        B. But for      C. In spite of     D. Due to 
15. The British painter who had been praised highly by______ to be a great disappointment.
   A. turned out    B. turned up   C. turned in   D. turned down
16. It is not always right to judge a person on the _____ of the first impression.
   A. basic   B. basis   C. base   D. basement
17. Generally speaking, your success __ your ability and efforts.
   A. comes of   B. depends on   C. belongs to   D. grows up
18. Everybody has access _____ the large collection of books on various subjects in our department library.
   A. of   B. for   C. to   D. about
19. Thirty miles away from the town, the robbers _____ the car and disappeared into the woods.
    A. approached   B. ground   C. abandoned   D. removed
20. Though this house is very old and may not be worth much, it is _____ great emotional value to my father who spent all his childhood days here.
   A. by   B. of   C. with   D. for
21. Read the book carefully _____ you will find lots of information related to our research.
   A. if   B. or    C. so    D. and
22. He prefers to rent a car _____ have one of his own
   A. other than   B. rather than   C. on condition that   D. would rather
23. In the past ten years Jack has been with us. I think he has proved that he _____ respect from every one of us.
   A. qualifies   B. expects   C. reserves   D. deserves
24. It was some time ____ the door opened in response to his ring.
   A. before    B. when    C. after    D. since
25. It is a huge task to ____ in the building in such a short time
   A. go ahead with  B. keep up   C. clean up   D. work out
26. What he has done shows that he is not a man ____.
   A. whom you can believe     B. that you can believe
   C. whom you can believe in   D. what you can believe in
27. He was ____ to speak the truth.
   A. too much of a coward      B. so much a coward
   C. too much a coward        D. so much of a coward
28. If we continue to argue over minor points, we won’t get ____ near a solution.
   A. somewhere    B. elsewhere    C. everywhere    D. anywhere
29. There are some ____ flowers on the table.
   A. unreal    B. false    C. artificial    D. unnatural
30. When Mr. Jones gets old, he will ____ over his business to his son.
   A. take    B. hand    C. think    D. get
31. I can    some noise while I’m studying, but I can’t stand loud noise.
   A. put up with    B. keep up with    C. catch up with   D. come up with
32. If we had had adequate time to prepare, the results ____ much better.
   A. would    B. were    C. had been    D. would have been    D. while
33. I like climbing mountains ____ my wife prefers water sports.
   A. as    B. when    C. for    D. while
34. Some parents are just too protective They want to      their kids from every kind of danger, real or imagined.
   A. shelter     B. locate    C. prevent     D. release
35. As a cleaning woman, her      duties include cleaning the desks and mopping the floor.
   A. continuous   B. routine   C. initial   D. constant
36. The kids lay face down to the beach, their backs     to the sun.
   A. exposing    B. exposed    C. having exposed    D. were exposing
37. It wasn’t the dinner. it was     people talked about at the dinner that disgusted ..
   A. what   B. that    C. whatever    D. those
38. For generations the people in these two villages lived in perfect.    
   A. conflict   B. distinction   C. harmony   D. regulation
39. He was seriously injured in the accident and lost his consciousness. When he _____ he found himself in a hospital bed.
A. came off    B. came up    C. came in    D. came to        
40. His face_____ when he told a lie.
A. gave him off    B. gave him away    C. gave him up    D. gave him out

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Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (50%)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:

                              Passage  One
   What do we talk about when we talk about money? We often think about what we can buy whit the money we have, what we can’t buy because we don’t have enough and what we’re planning to buy when we have more. We discuss the careers that bring us money and the expenses that take it away. We talk about our favorite shops and restaurants, the causes we support, the place we’ve been and seen. We share dreams that only money can make real.
   In short, we talk about everything but money itself. In daily life, money is still a major conversational taboo (禁忌). This is a shame, because money is as interesting as the things it does and buys, and the more you know about it the more interesting it is.
   (81) As a financial advisor, I’ve seen hundreds of people learn to control their money instead of letting it control them and watched as they increased their freedom, power and security by handling money consciously. Wouldn’t you like to know that you’ll always have enough money to live exactly as you want to?
   You’ll never be powerful in life until you’re powerful over your own money. Talking openly about it is the first step.
41. Which of the following is NOT discussed when we talk about money?
   A. The careers that bring us money.
   B. The causes we support.
   C. The dreams that only money can make real.
   D. Money itself.
42. What can we know form from the second paragraph?
   A. We should know more about money itself rather than avoid talking about it.
   B. Money itself can interest us and bring us happiness.
   C. The more money we earn, the more we should know about it.
   D. It is a shame that people talk too much about money.
43. What does the writer want to say in the third paragraph?
   A. People should learn how to make money.
   B. People should know the value of money.
   C. People should learn to control their money.
   D. People should know how to use money to increase their power.
44. The writer’s advice is that      .
   A. the more you talk about money, the more you can control it
B. we should learn to be a good master of our money if we want to be powerful in life
C. we should not be so worried about money if we want to have a free life
D. the more money you have, the more powerful you are
45. What will the writer probably talk about after the last paragraph?
   A. The importance of money.
   B. Money, power and security.
   C. The other steps for people to control money
   D. The steps for people make money

Passage  Two
    A question often put to the specialist on fishes is “How long do fishes live?” This puts the specialist in an embarrassing because he is often unable to give a direct answer to this simple question.
   But actually this question is not as simple as it seems. There are thousands of different kinds of fishes, and they vary a great deal in size and life span. Moreover, it is not easy to find out just how long a fish lives in its natural state.
   We can find out how old a fish is by studying its scales, but we cannot say how much more time it would live if we had not caught it.
   We may rear fishes and record their life span but we cannot be sure that this is the length of time they would have lived, had they been left alone.
   We may make marking to show how fast the fishes grow so that we can calculate the age of the largest on record , but unless this large fish dies of old age we are still not in a position to know its natural life span .
   (82) Unlike human beings , fishes do not stop growing when they reach maturity (成熟). They continue to grow as long as they live, although the rate of growth slows down in mature fishes.
46. People often ask the specialist on fishes regarding its _____.
  A. size      B. Life     C. age       D. variety
47. The specialist is embarrassed by the question because______.
  A. he does not know the answer   B. there is no answer to the question
  C. it is a silly and simple question for him   D. there is no definite answer to this question
48. We can know a fish’s age from its ________.
   A. weight     B. size      C. scales      D. length
49. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
   A. Different kinds of fishes have different life spans.
   B. It is hard for the specialist to know the length of time a fish lives in its natural state.
   C. Mature fishes grow more quickly than young one.
D. The specialist makes marking to know the rate of fishes so that they know the age of the largest ones.
50. Human being, unlike fishes, _________
  A. stop growing when they reach maturity   B. grow faster after maturing
  C. Continue to grow as long as they live     D. have a short life span

Passage  Three
We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming (把----按能力分班) pupils . It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
Besides, it is rather unreal to grade pupils just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. (83) We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
In our classrooms, we work in various ways .The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. (84) They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.
Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignment, and they can to this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the stills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work: it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.
51. In the passage the author’s attitude towards “mixed-ability teaching” is __________.
   A. critical        B. approving              C. questioning          D. objective
52. By “held back” (line 1, Para .1) the author means ___________.
   A. made to remain in the same classes    B. forced to study in the lower classes
   C. drawn to their studies               D. prevented from advancing
53. The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the student’s___________.
A. Personal qualities and social skills learning ability and communicative skills
B. Total personality learning ability and communicative skills
C. learning ability and communicative skills
 D. intellectual ability
54. Which of following is NOT MENTIONED in the third paragraph?
     A. Group work gives pupils the opportunity to learn to work together with other.
     B. Pupils also learn to develop their reasoning abilities.
 C .Group work provides pupils with the opportunity to learn to be capable organizers.
 D .Pupils also learn how to participate in teaching activities,
55. The author’ purpose in writing this passage is to __________.
     A. argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class
     B. recommend pair work and group work for classroom activities
     C. offer advice on the proper use of the library
     D. emphasize the importance of appropriate formal classroom teaching

Passage  Four
    (85) Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are d